Can You Upload Your Brain to a Computer?

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[@He1IoStuff]

Hoi

[@Koronisu]

wtf 10 hours ago and posted just now??!?!!!?!

[@typicalpaul1725]

@@Koronisu ah yes a time traveler

[@Koronisu]

@@typicalpaul1725 lmao

[@saucyminx8697]

🙏🏻DRAWN TO U WITHOUT PONDERING🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@homelessjeff4428]

imagine your chilling at the beach watching the sunset in a digital world, and suddenly an ad for raid shadow legends blocks your vision and a voice in your head says "buy earth premium for only 129.99 a month to remove ads"

[@danieldecastro4164]

LOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL

[@petergant8767]

BEST APRIL FOOL'S DAY JOKE, EVER! I' hope!

[@schiz0phren1c]

If the ad was by Internet Historian I wouldn't mind.

[@pigpug_214]

A voice whispers... “pssst... it’s ya boy...”

[@schiz0phren1c]

@@pigpug_214 Lol! exactly how I pictured it Pigpug! then Shadow man starts kicking sand in peoples faces and wrecking their sandcastles...

[@oscarnanayakkara1097]

Everyone gangsta until there's a power cut

[@shaunsamazingcontent9797]

There’s also this show on amazon names upload but Funny comment 😂

[@m0n4rch911]

Not really since it's probably saved so we wouldn't even know if it turned off and will likely just reboot and continue after power is restored. I sense an r/ wooooosh since i brought it up meaning i cant be r/ wooshed, bwahahahahaha. I mean bruhhhh how many times did i have to do all those work again since i didn't save my game up. Feelsbad bruh when you don't have auto save enabled.

[@abhi5504]

@@m0n4rch911 what if when the power cuts humanity resets to the last autosave so we couldve invented something amazing and have lost it and we wouldnt even know

[@murderedcarrot9684]

I would be a closed circuit and rely on batteries instead of a powerplant.

[@TheAlee233]

@@m0n4rch911when we reboot we'll all have a 'dejavu' moment LOL

[@sjdstorm2]

Imagine being stuck in VR and get tortured forever in there since time works differently. Literal hell

[@carlosdasilva2409]

Worse scenario. Imagine being successfully uploaded to a computer or private server, but you don't get any simulation, any input at all. You only perceive the nothingness, you have your memories, your experiences, your own knowledge and your very own "existence"...but you are completely deprived from any sensory stimuli. You are only a fragment of consciousness in the void. You can process information faster than any human would but...you are trapped in the nothingness and every second feels like an eternity. You can "think" and imagine a whole life in just a couple of them. That's a far worse hell than a simulated torture, if you ask me. It basically involves descending into madness until someone decides to shut you down or terminate you.anima

[@fluffygengar3533]

@@carlosdasilva2409 pokemon in the computer

[@carlosdasilva2409]

@@fluffygengar3533 I think so. Unless there is more lore into it that says pokemon somehow get transfered to a simulated world according to the skin of the "box" they are put into, that's pretty much what I think they go through :T

[@fluffygengar3533]

Only if they were outside of the pokeballs, then put into the pc, which is impossible.

[@timothyblevins6928]

Could this be a part of the hell spoken of in Scripture?

[@tristanruusmaa4571]

We could make a copy of a human brain but nobody is even close to understanding what consciousness is

[@bsadewitz]

The fashionable thing to do these days is apparently just to pretend that there actually isn't any hard problem.

[@nelsonx5326]

I was considering that. What is consciousness, self awareness? The AI personality would need an ego too. Somethings that make us who we are seem to be outside the brain, outside our being. I'm not crazy about these scientists playing God. Say you transfer your mind and being into a simulated reality. All is wonderful. Then some hacker gets into the simulated reality program and thinks it would be funny to turn it into hell. Regular life is great, even with its ups and downs. But some people have screwed up big time, and we have 20 year old men and women being sentenced to life in prison. Now imagine a horrific fascist government with the technology described in this video, with the ability to send the mind and consciousness to virtual prison for 10,000 years. Yeah baby, the brave new world, all who enter give up all hope. I believe I see government abusing technology and power already. Some years ago my young daughter was making mischief. I warned her that with the advancements in technology she needs to walk the line. The first generation that might live to be 1,000 years old was born ten years ago. A thousand years is a long time to be dragging a criminal record around. Pretty fucked up when death...

[@tristanruusmaa4571]

@@nelsonx5326 yea and when we look at the government in North Korea or the Soviet Union trying to control their citizens minds and whatnot, imagine if only they would have access to everybody's minds and shit

[@piemoon2488]

Nonsense. Its awareness. A much smaller part of your psyche than the subconscious and they claim to know enough about that to manipulate fracture and physically control a person. They know. Don't believe everything you read and research MK ultra while your at it. And fiction is just fiction too. Has no affect on you at all.

[@code5829]

@@bsadewitz exactly.

[@briandering4182]

It will all be 'fun and games' till someone trips over the power cable.

[@lightpropulsionguy]

While the notion of living forever in a simulation is entertaining and thought provoking, the fact that you are trading immortality for external control seems pointless, if all of society lived in a computer then there is no one to protect the computer the only true guarantee we have to survive as a species is to outlast inevitable odds, we will never do this if everyone jumps on one bandwagon, we must spread our species out into all notions of expansion, we must live in computers, robots, on other planets, and at the same time try to repair this one, it is the only true way to increase the odds of humans being a "forever species"

[@kronoscamron7412]

imagine someone edits your code and something goes horribly wrong.

[@tammywhitworth6331]

😂😂😂

[@Princess_Soulless]

Best comment ever

[@nickrog6759]

@@kronoscamron7412 Its already happened - I caught a flu a while back , I woke up and found I have a much smaller co..

[@Takedownman]

The problem is, yes it is you, but not you. I would still exist, yet the me here and now wouldn't be. Only memories, I would still be dead. So in reality, I wouldn't live forever.

[@Takedownman]

Also I can sew this turning into dark matter lol. Where no matter where you go I'm VR or AI ads play to pay the way lol

[@nis62]

It’s a digital copy of you.

[@jesperjohansson6959]

By that logic, this has already happened to you. 98 percent of your atoms get replaced each year. You are already a copy holding on to memories of a human body that no longer exists. You have died many times already. Probably the key is that we change gradually. If you instantly created a digital copy of yourself, would that carry your consciousness? Probably not. But if you gradually replaced the physical aspects of your body with digital ones - the same way our atoms get replaced all the time - then your consciousness would probably merge into the digital you.

[@nis62]

@@jesperjohansson6959 Let's put it like this. Have you seen the Prestige? We are gonna die eventually like the guy in the box what your left is just an digital immitation of you. If you haven't seen it then sorry forthe spoiler.

[@siddharthakvr5154]

@@jesperjohansson6959 check out SOMA. It's a game that really asks this question

[@LarryNathanielPhoto]

"Nobody wants Mark Zuckerberg as their overlord." That really hit home. 😆

[@rgerber]

Maria Splitterburg

[@niomifoster8963]

Reminds me of the movie in time

[@carlosdasilva2409]

"Brain interface suspended for hate speech. You said: I prefer the orange model over the black one. Context: you were buying augmentations for your robotic body and the orange one looked cooler for you

[@michaelm4464]

@@carlosdasilva2409 too late for this one. They already got him. RIP

[@larshassing3938]

He ain't THE overlord irl.! He is one of them...

[@ackantha]

Original title: "Could the entire human race live inside a computer?"

[@subieasunayuuki]

Okay, Lucifier.

[@paulgoogol2652]

always has been

[@CorundumDevil]

You are not my scribe, and I shall spitefully forget the history you ascribe.

[@drishalballaney6590]

current title: Why the Entire Human Race Could be Living Inside a Computer in 10 Years

[@occupied1111]

I hope so. I’m trying to buy cheap land.

[@rorythomson3439]

Being conscious but trapped inside a limited computer software construct sounds like a special kind of hell.

[@bsadewitz]

We already are.

[@navareeves8976]

virtual people would start realizing that immortality is not a good idea. people would want to commit die and find away to turn themselves off. what is described sounds like heaven, but it would be hell.

[@lenandov]

You mean because boredom? Like, nothing new and it can't even keep up with your imagination? Reginald Barclay had to teach the computer how to build one?

[@friedsugar2701]

In India, a ton of sages we're attempting to live forever whilst some were attempting to break from the cycle of rebirth. Weird world, we reside in.

[@xitcix8360]

Well the ones trying to break from the cycle of rebirth were trying to get into the afterlife, which gives them eternal life.

[@johnqpublic7191]

Door 2, please

[@friedsugar2701]

@@xitcix8360 *Visible confusion*

[@YouTubecanfuckagoat]

@@xitcix8360 Umm... no, the point is to embrace...eternal nothingness.

[@gusbarrientos7864]

@@KZbincanfuckagoat nirvana isnt eternal nothingness sooooo. When you break the cycle of reincarnation it leads you to nirvana, eternal bliss and unification with the whole.

[@astrid.00.7]

Arran’s got the jump on us-he’s been uploading his brain to KZbin for years.

[@shemarhylton8093]

SWORD ART ONLINE BRO

[@TheGunmanChannel]

*He uploads his Google search history

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

#Russia2045 #TomCampbell #MonroeInstitute #AstralRealms #SimulationTheory #Biocentrism #GoVegan #Centrist #RichDadPoorDad #Agnostic #AntiTheist

[@ErikGauthierDrums]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to think about whether they should" - Dr Ian Malcolm

[@vasekfrydl6373]

The Human Race: Becomes a part of a computer. Blackout: Hello there, you didn't see ME coming did you.

[@neonxnational]

Personal Generators : no.

[@CosmicHarmony58]

@@neonxnational INITIATE BACK UP GENERATORS 1138!! ACTIVATING GENERATORS! we back on BABY!

[@niomifoster8963]

All fun and games until they upload a serial killer brain mapping and he starts deleting people. "The serial Hacker killer "

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

Hehe. #Russia2045 #TomCampbell #MonroeInstitute #AstralRealms #SimulationTheory #Biocentrism #GoVegan #Centrist #RichDadPoorDad #Agnostic #AntiTheist

[@rapj.r.6133]

Wouldn't have eyes as a computer so no

[@BigfootWithMemes]

Plot twist: You've been inside a computer this whole time

[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

Hehe... hehe.. he

[@rvfiasco]

Indeed.

[@vmondude]

According to Elon Musk haha

[@wyattloftin106]

Kinda🤔

[@sharkhenry8010]

This simulation sucks.

[@theCodyReeder]

Can’t wait!

[@aliceyue1754]

how do u only have on like???

[@youhaveinfinitevalue5755]

Ya, full access to everything you did, really want that? Your spirit moves on, so downloading would be a journal of every thought and deed in life, really want that available for all while you go to the next step of growth? I died and came back at the age of 7, I promise, eternal life is there, not here.

[@shanonfrancis5071]

Are you telling me there's an actual worm living in a Lego body somewhere out there? That's sad and scary at the same time!

[@Nphen]

It's just a computer-simulated version of worm neurons. Very cool that they were able to use Lego as part of a science experiment!

[@agalah408]

Great, now I'm going to have creepy lego crawling worm nightmares tonight.

[@_wanted_outlaw3007]

No it just does the same things it's a npc irl

[@newphysicist]

When I started to type a comment, 60 comments already! Did they just comment without watching?

[@dolly8714]

i mean you were typing a comment too, right? that means you didnt even watch the video either and planned to send a comment

[@UwUOwl]

42's own pinned comment was posted *10 hours ago* soooo....

[@warpdrive9229]

That's what most people do actually. I am one of them XD

[@pyrokittykat744]

Patrons do get perks 😉

[@arealphantom2859]

yup

[@missfoxylocksnz]

It's like that episode of stargate atlantis where the main characters are copied by the "replicators", find out they aren't the real ones and then meet the real ones. It's definitely an interesting concept and an awesome plot for movies too - like transcendence. Love the channel ❤

[@quandary1382]

There was an SG1 episode too called "Tin Man" where they all got their minds copied into androids.

[@taavi948]

Wow, Thoughty2 has been on fire the last year. I remember there were times when I had to wait for his video for weeks.

[@Tony32]

Thank the pandemic.

[@jgobroho]

Reuploading videos with different titles and pictures.

[@lazyman456talio7]

Same bro 😎

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

Alright, it's got to be said..."Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should!"-Ian Malcolm

[@MarcillaSmith]

We were going to, but it wasn't billable

[@brett6905]

"Yea but people are notorious for being horrible at predicting what will turn out in the long run to be good or bad. Whether or not you should, just depends on a persons belief system and reasoning abilities. There is no objective right or wrong answer" -Me

[@Randy_Flamethrower]

Best part about this channel is he gets RIGHT into the content. Doesn't ask you to like, subscribe, sign up for his patreon, or any of that.

[@shrekinionminion9704]

So basically we are sims in a 4d creature's computer.

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Except we can understand that we're not real.

[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

Broke Simp has entered the chat

[@Jamsessionroom1337]

@@TheSkyGuy77 We are all a theseus ship, so yes we are real and no we aren't real in the grand cosmic sense. As we will die and return to start dust. As if nothing had happened. Our lives are what we make of them, the only real thing is the connections and the fleeting memories of suffering, hatred, love, friendship, every other emotion, and community we have held dear until our final moments. So everything and everyone u meet matters and it all doesn't matter except for the infinity that will return to nothing and probably will return to everything because... true Nothingness can't be truly nothing forever. After all we are a unseeable untraceable billion year one frame spot in the entirety that is the picture of the infinite cosmos, our very own existence is impossible yet possible, complicated, intricately weaved, a soup that was stirred to as close as a "dream" could be.

[@shrekinionminion9704]

@@Jamsessionroom1337 This is great.I am using this in my essay. Don't worry I will give you credit.

[@hnks6862]

@@Jamsessionroom1337 interesting could you explain it in more detail cuh I don't understand these discombobulated words🤣🤣😅

[@michaelault9334]

So you can think and speak and hear but you cant touch hug or feel... it sounds like being on twitter for eternity. This is my own personal hell.

[@capnsteele3365]

i dont want that

[@Heinz76Harald]

yes

[@tomm04471]

yes you could. everything you feel is reactions to electrical and chemical input. In essence, all you experience is information. So from an outside perspective, you're right. But *you* will still feel it all. EDIT: However, if something went wrong, if the wrong hands got a hold of your digital neurons, you could end up experiencing pain and suffering that would make every version of evil cover their eyes in horror and disgust (⓿_⓿)

[@Heinz76Harald]

@@tomm04471 ya, but where does the information come from to experience it? you see? :D

[@tomm04471]

As a continuation of my previous edit, let's play a game. Who can think up the worst scenario, I'll start; rusty jagged needles in every single pore.

[@siltstrider6812]

Imagine shaking someone's hand, only to be disconnected, glitch out, and stare into the person's eyes awkwardly for half of a day.

[@ananamu2248]

It would probably be called love ! 🤪

[@moofymoo]

I used to have nightmare I still remember - waking up as only a head floating in some pale yellowish goo bath with other heads, got scared, freaked out, and then woke up in this reality. I hope it is just a Matrix themed nightmare.

[@paulgoogol2652]

It wasn't a dream.

[@yourmother6045]

It wasn't a dream. (1)

[@googleplaystore4242]

It wasn't a dream (2)

[@rgerber]

It wasn't a dream (3)

[@lazyman456talio7]

Yo such a cool 😎 underated comment

[@glitchedzenkokitsune9703]

This brings a new meaning to your mom saying “Do your chores or I’ll turn off your video games”

[@user-ow9uo8mc4f]

👂👁👃👄👁👂holy shit

[@glitchedzenkokitsune9703]

@@user-ow9uo8mc4f shouldn’t the mouth be under the nose?

[@glitchedzenkokitsune9703]

👂👁👃👁👂 👅

[@glitchedzenkokitsune9703]

@@user-ow9uo8mc4f 👂. 👂 👁👃👁 👅.

[@xXxlLEGENDZlxXx]

@@glitchedzenkokitsune9703 that face creepy as fuck 😆

[@MyLateralThawts]

So the guy who looks like a young nineteenth century gold prospector discusses immortality? Well, I’ve got to listen to this!

[@AvroBellow]

Everyone is already a ship of Theseus because we replace every molecule in our bodies dozens of times during our lives. I'm still here, how about you?

[@MarcillaSmith]

I can't believe I let someone talk me into implanting my VIN into that one cell :: smacks head ::

[@tomm04471]

are you though? being 31, If I was put next to my teenage self, no one would guess we were the same person.

[@MarcillaSmith]

@@tomm04471 not even you?

[@Rebelliouso]

Not true. You replace many of your cells but not all of your cells. Many of your brain cells are the same cells that you were born with. They've just been added to and augmented.

[@MarcillaSmith]

@@Rebelliouso Fair enough - neurons do not get replaced, and yet they can and do regrow their axons and dendrites - and there are billions of them. If I went to sleep tonight, and a nanobot replaced one of my neurons with an artificial substitute, would I notice in the morning? Perhaps, but I doubt it

[@Guust_Flater]

"You" are not the "same" person as you was 7 years ago. In that time all the cells in your body are replaced.....You're constantly renewing yourself, so there is a moment that nothing of your old self is still around. So the theory of replacing your body, bit by bit, seems technically feasible.

[@Karel1]

Yeah like uploading your Consciousness in steps or like in parts.

[@WAX1138]

Continuity of consciousness

[@wjamesm1001]

I wonder which is going to be more feasible this or altering of DNA to reveres or halt the aging process

[@jamesmatthew1903]

1945: "You're going to have a shower" 2021: "You're going to be uploaded to a computer"

[@homelessjeff4428]

are you comparing mind uploading to the holocaust?

[@jamesmatthew1903]

@@homelessjeff4428 yes I thought that was obvious. The final solution to the population problem. You're lead to believe you're being uploaded into a computer (like being told you'll have a shower) only to be executed. Although to be honest the latter is far more believable than the former.

[@brendonchilders3063]

This could be the future way to record history. Imagine year 3021 and being able to communicate directly with every soldier of the war of 2037.

[@RAMBO14001]

Weird approach, but ok.

[@lazyman456talio7]

@Minecraft guy wait there another war

[@insane_troll]

How do you know about the war of 2037?

[@StefanVeenstra]

“Yeah, sir, could you please relive your traumatic experiences? I need it for a B- in history class, thanks.”

[@Dexter037S4]

War of 2021, Buddy.

[@freightshaka4193]

Idc what anyone says. This guy is hilariously informative. Seriously. Love his content!

[@philiplavere]

The smartest and most thoughty take on this ludicrous concept I have seen yet. I especially liked that someone finally touched on the reality of other organs in the body and their connection to the emotional 'self'. Kurzweil might start by seeing if his brain could contain him without his body, before he tries relying solely on it's contents to duplicate himself.

[@jayfin3950]

Original Title: "Could the Entire Human Race Live Inside a Computer?"

[@tomkent5929]

Why does he always change it 😭

[@eh8888]

@@tomkent5929 I’m guessing it’s an algorithm tactic when a video isn’t getting a certain number of interactions.

[@derekschommer1465]

@@tomkent5929 probably picks a name as a placeholder while KZbin is doing the processing on the video and by the time it's done decides on a better one and it probably doesn't instantly change on youtube.

[@xitcix8360]

@@tomkent5929 I'm guessing it's so people will unwittingly click on the video a second time believing it's a different video.

[@sanctred]

I am guessing... oh wait never mind I don’t care. 😙

[@random_acuity9203]

The irony being, we might already be living in a computer.

[@agalah408]

Yeah, well, go back to the store and ask for an upgrade to a better reality. One with fewer pandemic's and despots.

[@random_acuity9203]

@@agalah408 there’s always a glitch in the matrix

[@rapj.r.6133]

Inseption?

[@garethwynn01]

@@rapj.r.6133 that would be inception.

[@cathyhamlin3611]

You've been watching The Matrix too much

[@postprophet6384]

I’d be nervous af about having my consciousness stuck in a computer forever, I get claustrophobic just sitting in my living room.

[@explosionbruh1875]

same my friend..... same........

[@derpmcgerp8062]

EXACTLY. I was looking for this comment. I don't know why more people aren't talking about that. That would be absolutely terrifying. The human mind isn't meant to be confined like that. Lmao

[@anno5936]

Being claustrophobic will be a minor issue... just imagine you're stuck in a virtual reality with everyone you hardly like and outright dislike FOREVER, you'll go mad.

[@postprophet6384]

@@anno5936 I may be already there. Lol

[@anno5936]

@@postprophet6384 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@giovannidemarinis1345]

I would love it if you made a video about why when you smell something, it brings back certain memories

[@patrickwilson7378]

That needs explaining to you???

[@giovannidemarinis1345]

Yes, why does your brain do that? What makes it meaningful, questions like that.

[@patrickwilson7378]

Well, it's because your senses are all interconnected to your mind, which is somewhat of a whole body thing. It has to do with memories. Even people who have lost a leg or arm often feel it is still there. Almost as if the "spirit" of the lost limb remains. It's the same with smells, sounds, feelings, etc. It's not always just your brain that remembers but the body as a "whole". Some people have memories and/or remember things from their past lives or can connect to those former lifetimes through hypnosis, experience during meditation, astral body experiences, etc. And it really doesn't matter if you believe in reincarnation or not. It's is a fact of being and will be scientifically proven fairly soon. There is, and has been research ongoing into reincarnation for some time now. Especially at the University of Virginia with very young children who recall past lives or can speak other languages from past lives even before they can read or write, as well as recall places they've lived before with prefect accuracy or recall historical people or things they haven't yet been exposed to. Check it out.

[@giovannidemarinis1345]

@@patrickwilson7378 thanks for that detailed answer!! Even though I no longer have that question, don’t you think that would make a cool video idea for Thoughty2 to explain?

[@agalah408]

If your nose runs and your feet smell, it means that you have been built upside down

[@Benzinilinguine]

So what you're telling me is The End of Eva was a prediction of the future? That'll be quite impactful.

[@chicken2jail545]

We just need to upload our being into Thoughty's Moustache. #stachelane

[@keithknight9089]

Remember when thoughty used to wear a 50 dollar suit from a thrift store. He’s come a long way

[@Ahoooooooo]

He is the same guy ? I could swear the other guy didn't have a moustache . 🤔

[@rgerber]

The thing is soething like: If it would work, whoever does it first would probably never be able to tell. Or he would live forever and in great pain or life in an artificial void forever and also not able to tell anyone. Could be pretty scary stuff

[@harryschaefer5887]

"The last moments of Karl Brant" deals with the moment your switch is turned off/ plug is pulled.

[@enlightenedsoul8897]

I think the concept of uploading your brain to a computer and gaining all the knowledge from the Internet is an amazing idea. You would excel as an individual dramatically and with this knowledge you could gain even more information because you would know how, and you could excel too have the mind way beyond any living genius but it is very easy to exploit if put in the wrong hands

[@biggiejeffrey]

To quote the Twelfth Doctor: "Being immortal isn't living forever. It means watching everyone else DIE."

[@suadfaraj5712]

I honestly thought that long before anyone else, the doctor gave us the answer.

[@არარსებული]

That applies to stories where only one person becomes immortal. The video describes technology that everyone would use. If the technology failed and everyone else died you would too.

[@biggiejeffrey]

@@არარსებული But that's just it: not everyone will be able to afford to live forever, and some will just refuse it because of personal reasons. Therefore, a lot of people aren't going to be living forever. So why would you want to if someone you love can't or won't be able to live forever?

[@არარსებული]

@@biggiejeffrey Well definitely no one should be forced to be immortal if they'd just be lonely the whole time. I think it would just be up to the individual, if you lived a million years and got bored suicide is always an option. That aside though, I think in a future with this sci-fi level of tech, the money paradigm may have also changed such that scooping up every consciousness on Earth into the matrix isn't limited by people's bank accounts.

[@biggiejeffrey]

@Alexander Diaz What if they don't want to? What about personal choice & free will? (this was the problem with the Cybermen in the first place, remember?)

[@Kingofportals]

At least we can upload a Worm’s consciousness into the internet.

[@Dumb-Comment]

"Summit is the fastest computer on the planet, Fugaku is 3 times faster"

[@RC-nq7mg]

Interesting thing about super computers is that they cannot be measured equally, not can a comparison of a certain number of consumer computers be compared to a super computer. These numbers are usually compared using the systems FLOPs rating (floating point operations per second). Super computers are very specialized architecture designed for very specialized tasks. An x86 or RISC based CPU will handle general tasks more efficiently than a super computer. Not saying a super computer wouldn't be able to do it, they could with flying colours, but they would do it so much less efficiently than a system with a large instruction set. Its raw mathematical computation where they shine, not complex operations.

[@StefanVeenstra]

Digital you: “Ah, now I can finally live forever...” Blackout/EMP/Short-circuitry: “Yeah, about that...”

[@robertsollory7475]

What would we all do without Thoughty 2? I can't remember life before I discovered this channel. I do have memories.... But was it all real? That's the question.

[@gabrieljordan8015]

This guy always gives me existential anxiety. I think I'll watch his videos more often.

[@genkiferal7178]

it builds character

[@navareeves8976]

same

[@PowerofRock24]

I'm watching this while playing a video game with a digital 1:1 creation of the entire Milky Way galaxy as the map... yeah, we're closer than we think.

[@Kneirros]

Your voice is phenomenally soothing.

[@tomohawk5567]

Don't you mean soofing 👍

[@venusplatoon2839]

i remember watching your OG videos with the intro theme song YEARS ago. been trying to catch up on the past few years of missed videos recently. this channel has really taken off, congrats!

[@daleksix1396]

This 'Singularity' of course, _sounds_ good on paper but, seeing all the other things you have to account for instills feelings of trepidation, anxiety and finally, abject terror... Thanks T2, you saved me from myself, again... ;)

[@k3nz1e73]

I’m just gonna pretend that I know what you are talking about.

[@AluneTheShaman]

@@k3nz1e73 yeah me too I guess we aren’t shining bright enough

[@diogeneslantern18]

I really enjoy Thoughty2 but listen to people actually involved with the concept eg Ben Goertzel and Joscha Bach. Watch the Lex Fridman podcast if you want to hear some _really_ interesting people

[@NuLuumo]

At first I thought you meant Terminator 2 🤣

[@tristanruusmaa4571]

How does it even sound good on paper?

[@cosmicanomaly3416]

I just need 1 of 2 things to die happy, Either be capable of living my videosgames by uploading my conscious to a virtual world or get tf out of earth and travel through space.

[@andyespinozam]

Black Mirror has a really good sneak peak of this. Just great.

[@paulohagan3309]

Which episode please?

[@andyespinozam]

@@paulohagan3309 Althuugh the series hints at tech (some dots that you put close to your forehead, specifically the episode called San Junipero is about this.

[@paulohagan3309]

@@andyespinozam Thank you!

[@nerferothdrake559]

Great video, Thoughty! To get deeper into this topic especially regarding those tricky ethical and identity issues I strongly recommend to check out the video game called SOMA. The story of the game revolves around those issues. It's been around quite some time, so I guess it's not a huge spoiler.

[@annikat6793]

Ugh yes. I love SOMA. I do NOT want my brain uploaded.

[@disasterdinosaur2925]

This is exactly like the game SOMA. Fantastic game I highly recommend it

[@athulrajeev8229]

Short answer: No Long answer: It's complicated

[@xitcix8360]

Well actually yes. Just because there are two instances of you does not mean you haven't uploaded your mind.

[@estranhokonsta]

@@xitcix8360 Are those two instances the same? What is an instance of conscience? What is even a correct definition of consciousness in scientific terms, not those general and nebulous ones that suffices in everyday life use for normal people? Nobody knows what it is really and how it appears in the brain. The so called mind upload is the projection of the neurons functionality and network into some kind of software or at least the upload of the very little of what we think those are. A photo is also a projection of your appearance into a paper, is it the same as what your eyes see? tldr: Theory is not reality.

[@xitcix8360]

@wiktorpolak That's untrue.

[@xitcix8360]

​@@estranhokonsta Yes those two instances are the same. Consciousness is merely an illusion, you are a collection of memories and protocols that give you the idea of free will. You do not have free will. The mind upload would most likely be an advanced 3d scan of the brain, we would not need to understand it fully. A photo is only projecting appearance on a timeless 2-dimensional plane, but the scan would project into a 3-dimensional space with time. Theory is reality a lot of the time.

[@quantipl1186]

@@xitcix8360 that doesnt matter im not okay with having a copy of me having a great time

[@brickbrigade]

I’ve never been so happy to feel hungry. Right now I feel as if I have a higher sense of my mortality...

[@MultiAlanR]

This video comes out on Good Friday. Technically Easter Sunday would be more appropriate. Easter Sunday celebrates a man who rose from the dead. No giant computer, just his dad doing some magic tricks.

[@mustipunyaemail]

His dad? 2 entity?

[@lonelytortoise7096]

Human : successfuly uploaded brain HighlvlAI : welcome to our world

[@jonc-1989]

If you upload your mind onto a computer, you're not living forever. There is just a digital clone of you. If I do I'll still not exist anymore, just a clone of me will digitally exist. So it's not living forever but is a good way to back up your memories

[@MarcillaSmith]

If you replace the bricks in a wall, one at a time, when does the wall become a copy? Within the span of just one year, almost every cell in our bodies is replaced. Are we just copies of who we used to be?

[@tomm04471]

It would be amazing! You would have full access to your subconscious, court trials would be over in an instance, since we would basically be walking, talking camera footage with our perfect recall. We would become the character from limitless in that regard!

[@jonc-1989]

@@tomm04471 Some people don't even like being told to wear face masks and hate that CCTV is a thing, let alone their sub-concious accessible. Personally, I welcome our cyberpunk overlords

[@jonc-1989]

@@MarcillaSmith this is why people change over time in terms of personality. We are not us anymore but new people with our old selves dead and our new selves slowly dying on a 10 year cycle

[@highlysuggestible861]

Buggered if I want my every thought and memory uploaded, who'd own that information? What if I'd robbed a bank 40 years ago, would someone go after my estate? And for what?! This isn't immortality, it's an information grab! Well potentially, right?! Noo, we need to halt the ageing process. Better still, reverse it! 29 forever! Now we're talking!

[@joey19xx73]

I'm 29 and feel like I'm on the back 9 of my life. Idk why. Feels like I peaked and am just waiting to die. How depressing

[@highlysuggestible861]

@@joey19xx73 the last couple of years have taken their toll on most of us, we've had to lower the bar from thriving to surviving. I don't want to sound cliche but you're not alone. I took up tramping last year, its made a huge improvement to my general and mental health.

[@Jackraiden500]

This reminds me of a quote from a wise man, "your scientists were so concerned with whether they could they never stopped and asked if they should"

[@Warhawk76]

The only reason anyone cried at the end of Titanic was they realized that they just wasted 195 minutes of their life and they couldn't get it back.

[@Warhawk76]

The human plinko game when the ship goes vertical was ok... I think I actually laughed at that in the theater. I got some nasty looks for that.

[@harikumar2120]

Ouch.

[@paulohagan3309]

Odd thing was I saw in the cinema and didn't like it. Then I saw it on TV about 15 years later and it seemed ok. Ah. ship of Theseus ...

[@RoyaltyFreeVideoClips]

About every seven years the cells of our body die and are replaced by new cells. 'I inherited my body from a dead man' - Neil Gaiman

[@LilithLonelyHeart]

Reminds me a bit of one concept from "Ghost in the Shell", where the main way to recognize that a person was a natural human who underwent cyberization (that was pushed so far in this universe you could even swap out bodies by moving cybernetic brain from one to another) is so-called "Ghost" which is original human consciousness, which could be transferred too, and in one episode of anime, there was even a Russian assassin with ghost dated to be around 150 years old, rocking around in a highly cybernetic body of made to look like woman in early 30s

[@vmondude]

Altered Carbon is the key 😂 If you haven't watched it, you need to! First season anyway, second was a bit meh lol.

[@ginoviage7123]

If we could load our brains into computers, it means we have discovered immortality

[@Artak091]

I feel like when the first few people die from your "immortality elixir " maybe you should try another mix.

[@curiodyssey3867]

You'll never live forever with that attitude

[@DylanMatthewTurner]

Whenever I hear about the singularity, I just can't help but think of Robot Spongebob

[@zeekjones1]

Forgot about time dilatation, a digital world could be downclocked a factor until computing power can reach real time processing. We could then communicate via video messaging, to make up for the delay between worlds.

[@WONMARK]

"We may not have cyber immortality but at least you can have rock solid cyber security" Mwah 👌😙, priceless!

[@anglo2255]

If someone uploaded my brain into some other body, it would not be me. Simple thought experiment: if they uploaded my brain to a robot, and I was still alive, I could not be both.

[@curiodyssey3867]

Bingo

[@curiodyssey3867]

But I don't think they're saying both will be alive. Basically you will up load your mind and forfeit your body

[@DacLMK]

You'll be the original, but the robot could pass as you, and eventually replace you.

[@FalkonNightsdale]

Depends on how the connection would work - if your brain handle that, and cyber-implants allow for seamless connectivity, you can be both at the same time, gradually strengthening your digital imprint to a point, that it would be identical with your real self. Also, that would mean, that there would be no limitation for just one cyborg in existence at one time. I mean, you can get cloned and "swap" consciousness in shifts between 2 or 3 cyborgs with same biological predispositions so you wouldn't feel "alien" in a clone's body and it will be easy to add new body in case of the current one expiring... However, that would to a degree lead into losing the concept of "self" though, which could be risky in new ways.

[@SteveDorrans]

"We own you" could actually become a real threat...

[@alexstorr5511]

So I'm going to become a force ghost then? Also, 'The Ship of Theseus' has a modern update - The Broom of Trigger.

[@ikitclaw3299]

Brilliant

[@SteveRichfield]

The device to scan your connectome is described in excruciating detail in my U.S. Patent 9,229,213. This is a coincident focus microscope that sees (brain) tissue in 3D (instead of just 2D). Further - it sees UV fluorescence for limited 3D point-by-point chemical analysis. Included in the patent is a discussion of using the technology for scanning connectomes. Happy reading.

[@NottinghamSphere]

Me being a Directioner : Arran : That's a lot of One Direction and no one wants that Me : Well, well, well you've summoned the Devil

[@herrschmidt5477]

What do "Directioners" do in that case? Throw some cotton balls? :l Mess up the other one's hair? :/

[@TheProGam3rHD]

"The yellow emperor..." Couldn't get any more stereotypical than that folks.

[@funkydown]

lmao

[@braiden02]

If I Uploaded myself to a computer wouldn't that be the same as cloning myself I would still probably be in my body

[@seekkyle4230]

Could always create back ups of your mind and when your body is destroyed, upload your mind to a younger, pristine clone of yourself

[@rvfiasco]

If no ones told you today: I love you, Arron. ;)

[@lazyman456talio7]

Is that his name

[@drrhyme]

@@lazyman456talio7 yep

[@JustwatchingYouTube42]

The clone diverges from the base upon sentience thus they become individual; if an individual ceases to experience upon initiation of the clone sentience that clone becomes the individual since there is no conflicting experience. The best illustration of this is in the "Altered Carbon" book and TV series.

[@clark987878]

Neurons in the heart and gut? I guess when people say follow your heart or go with your gut, they really mean it!

[@rbdogwood]

a bit worrying though, being controlled by chocolate.

[@jcmottern]

I think nothingness sounds a little bit more attractive than being stuck in a Minecraft world.

[@m0n4rch911]

Uhm, why should we feel bad if were inside a simulation? It's like your cancer is on remission and you fear it coming back. Why? Why spend your life extension thinking about something thats out of your control? Just wing it i say and just live life to the fullest without letting things out of your control affect your persuit for happiness.

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

Altered carbon had an interesting take on it With the Advent of immortality experiencing new things and sensations becomes every less to give the same sense of stimulation and satiation. Eventually humanity falls into depravity

[@420ny5]

That's fucking hell on earth.......... Being free is our birthright

[@sebastianmeans5954]

It's only 6AM in PA when this was released... Notification squad!!

[@christophertumblin5889]

Lol you know you fuck with somebody when you legit enjoy watching in-video ads bc it means the grind is paying off

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

99,9% of the time I genuinely don't understand humans, living forever is the absolute worst thing I could ever imagine wtf

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

@Olaf Sigurson Nothing to do with curiosity, life is pointless and ultimately we are to serve one purpose which is to procreate. Other ideas are pretty much just coping mechanisms from people afraid to embrace the absurdity of living a purposeless life.

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

@Olaf Sigurson Did I say it's a bad thing? I never said anything about how things "should" be or why things "should" make sense. I just stated the fact that there's no real purpose aside from procreation, the rest was all you. You seem to fit in perfectly with the people I described to be honest. Why do you feel the need to assign your own fabricated versions of my views to me? I never stated anything remotely close to what you are trying to assign to me, is it just another coping mechanism?

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

@Char Aznable Well that's a dumb question if I've ever heard one.

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

@Char Aznable Oh the irony.. I can't tell if you're trolling or if you're really that daft.

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

@Char Aznable Never said it was a difficult one, just so stupid that you probably are trolling because it's hard to imagine someone being that dumb and still being able to operate a computer/smartphone to leave a comment on here. You clearly have nothing to say so what are you doing here?

[@tronche2cake]

We all know how predictions of the future work, this ain't gonna happen in 10 years. If it does, I'll actually eat my boxers.

[@TheUltimm]

@Limeify while in 2030

[@aesaehttr]

"that's a lot of 'One Direction'... And nobody wants that." LMAO

[@rainjar]

If your videos are never deleted, you would have achieved immortality.

[@mr.j1003]

Instead of making a copy, the body should be put in a hibernation state where only the brain is active. The person's conciousness would be living in the program and could be being uploaded as their physical bodies live out their lifespans, and when the body dies, the conciousness living in the simulation would "be the same person". Since the physical body's conciousness would be living in the computer the entire time, they won't have to compare their still aging, mortal selves to it, and with this method, the uploaded conciousness WOULD be them because throughout their lives and up to their death, their conciousness would have been out of their body. But tbh, i prefer the thought of a physically immortal human race, shooting through space. That's much cooler.

[@cirostrizzi3760]

after these last two years, the last thing that i want is living a digital life on a computer.

[@mickideg1837]

So many views in just a few minutes forty two must be doing something right! Awesome as usual 👍

[@sidejacked9447]

Imagine someone’s brain being transferred to a computer, managed to digitalise their body to talk to someone in the real world, have an argument with them and said real person deletes the file containing their data, that would be so unlucky.

[@malcolmd5851]

Never understood why someone would want to live forever, things were pretty good for me before I was born.

[@petergant8767]

You and me, both! No school, or, job, to obsess over, no dumbasses to have to keep an eye on, just sleep, dream, and, listen to the heartbeat jamming", 24-7

[@Thomas-yr3id]

Damn this is an early upload

[@patrickhannon4217]

19:27 reminded me of Only Fools and Horses Trigger: This broom has had 14 new heads and 17 new handles LOL